This author wrote about the spoiled poet Jaromil, who dies of a cold at age twenty, in Life is Elsewhere. Tamina makes love to Hugo so that he will retrieve the letters she wrote to her dead husband in this man's story, "Lost Letters." In one of his novels, Marketa receives a postcard reading (*) "Optimism is the opium of the people!" from her boyfriend. This man wrote a novel composed of seven interlinking stories entitled The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. He wrote about Ludvik Jahn in The Joke, and about the philandering Tomas and his wife Teresa in his most famous novel. For 10 points, n
This author wrote about the spoiled poet Jaromil, who dies of a cold at age twenty, in Life is Elsewhere. Tamina makes love to Hugo so that he will retrieve the letters she wrote to her dead husband in this man's story, "Lost Letters." In one of his novels, Marketa receives a postcard reading (*) "Optimism is the opium of the people!" from her boyfriend. This man wrote a novel composed of seven interlinking stories entitled The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. He wrote about Ludvik Jahn in The Joke, and about the philandering Tomas and his wife Teresa in his most famous novel. For 10 points, name this Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
This author wrote about the spoiled poet Jaromil, who dies of a cold at age twenty, in Life is Elsewhere.
Milan {Kundera}